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Flexural behavior
of functionally graded slender beams with complex
cross-section
Gholamali Sharifishourabi, Amran Ayob, Soheil Gohari, Mohd Yazid Bin Yahya, Shokrollah Sharifi and Zora Vrcelj |
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Vol. 10 (2015), No. 1, 1–16
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DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2015.10.1
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Abstract |
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Deflection and stress analyses of functionally graded beams with complex cross-section and general material variation, under transverse loading, were carried out. The elastic-fundamental solution is used to derive equations satisfied by the normal stresses in arbitrary cross-sections of the beam, assuming that the plane sections remain plane and normal to the beam axis. The technique was verified by existing analytical and finite element models. Numerical experiments were then performed where the material properties vary through thickness or width of the beams according to power-law and exponential gradations. It was found that the quality of material gradation affects the deflection, stresses and neutral axis position significantly. It is concluded that the technique is useful for the elastic behavior analysis of FGBs with complex cross-sections and various material gradations. |
Keywords
static analysis, functionally graded beams, general
material variation, bending
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Milestones
Received: 22 January 2014
Revised: 5 July 2014
Accepted: 17 August 2014
Published: 12 February 2015
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Authors |
| Gholamali Sharifishourabi | |
| Centre for Composites Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai 81310 Johor Malaysia |
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| Amran Ayob | |
| Centre for Composites Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai 81310 Johor Malaysia |
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| Soheil Gohari | |
| College of Engineering and
Science Victoria University Melbourne, VIC 8001 Australia |
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| Mohd Yazid Bin Yahya | |
| Centre for Composites Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai 81310 Johor Malaysia |
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| Shokrollah Sharifi | |
| Centre for Composites Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai 81310 Johor Bahru Malaysia |
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| Zora Vrcelj | |
| College of Engineering and
Science Victoria University Melbourne, VIC 8001 Australia |
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